There are more than three dozen species in the family Paradisaeidae, or better known as the bird of paradise. There are about 13 genera of birds and the most famous is a member of the genus Paradisaea.
In Indonesia we call the birds of paradise. Characterized by striking colors and bright, yellow fur, blue, red, and green. With colors so they become the most beautiful and interesting birds in the world, so-called bird of paradise.Birds of paradise are found in Papua and Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands, including eastern Australia. Unfortunately, the presence of these birds decreases with the number of illegal hunting is not responsible.
Lesser bird of paradise (Paradisaea minor)
The Lesser bird of paradise known as the little yellow bird of paradise. Is a medium-sized bird with a length of about 32 cm, red-brown with a yellow crown and upper back tawny.
Males had a throat emerald-green, long-tailed pair and decorated with ornate feather wings yellow in the white base of the outer area.
Females are smaller than males, have a dark brown head, white chest and without feathers decorated ornaments. Penyabaranya area covers the entire northern part of the forest Papua New Guinea, and the islands near Misool and Yapen.
Raggiana bird of paradise (Paradisaea Raggiana)
The Raggiana bird of paradise is also known by the name of Count Raggi's bird of paradise. This bird is also the best known birds of paradise. This bird habitat is widely distributed in the south island of New Guinea and northeast.
Has a length of 34 cm long, red-brown-gray, yellow iris and feet grayish brown. The males have a yellow crown, throat emerald-green and yellow collar between throat.
Wing feather color varies from red to orange depending on the subspecies. Females are smaller than males, with a brown face and had no fur trimmings.
Astrapia Ribbon-tailed (Astrapia mayeri)
It is one of the most spectacular birds of paradise. His name Astrapia Ribbon-tailed and has the longest tail feathers in relation to body size, length is more than three times the length of its body.
The length of adult birds reach 32 cm with male birds can reach 1 meter. Males have a black and olive green color while the female bird brown colored. Male birds have the long tail shaped white ribbon. Endemic area in the central part of the island of New Guinea.
Blue bird of paradise (Paradisaea Rudolphi)
Its name recalls the name of one of the taxi transportation in Indonesia. This bird is about 30 cm, black, dark brown iris color, gray legs. Male birds adorned with feather wings with a predominance of blue purple color. So it is also called the Blue Bird of Paradise.
Blue Bird of Paradise is a bird endemic to Papua New Guinea. Distribution area covers the mountains southeast of Papua New Guinea.
Riflebird Paradise (Ptiloris paradiseus)
If you've seen the movie Planet Earth, then you will see this bird. This bird has a length of about 30 cm with a black male bird with iridescent blue-green crown, black legs, dark brown iris and yellow mouth. This type of female birds are olive brown.
Is endemic to eastern Australia, Riflebird also scattered in a rain forest in central New South Wales and Queensland. Male birds can spread their wings and show it off while moving to the right and to the left in front of a female bird to lure them.
Red bird of paradise (Paradisaea rubra)
We call it the Red Bird of Paradise, a length of about 33cm yellow and brown, and yellow-billed. Adult males can reach 72cm including decorative feathers blood red with a white tip on the side of the stomach.
Fur face dark emerald green and diekornya there are two long strap-shaped black double gyre. Females are smaller than males, with dark brown face and had no fur trimmings.
Is endemic to Indonesia, Red Bird of Paradise is only found in the lowland forests on the island Waigeo and Batanta in Raja Ampat, West Papua province.
Lawes's Parotia (Parotia Lawesii)
Parotia lawesii medium size up to 27 cm). Endemic area includes mountain forests in the southeast and east of Papua New Guinea.
Males have a black color with white forehead, nape blue iridescent purple and gold chest hair green. Adorned with three decorative wire head from behind each eye and elongated flank feathers are black. The female bird is brown with dark bird's head, yellow iris and dark.
King of Saxony bird of paradise (Pteridophora Alberti)
King of Saxonyi is a kind of small-sized warbler, with a length of about 22cm. Adult males have black fur and dark yellow, his head there are two strands of wire bristles scaly shiny blue-sky like banner reach 40cm in length and can be enforced at the time attract females. Therefore, this bird of paradise Flag eaten.
Fur coat and grow back black hood-shaped elongated. Iris dark brown eyes, legs brownish gray and black beak with the inside of the mouth of sea-green.
The female bird is gray brown with stripes and dark spots. Females are smaller than males and without a coat or fur decorated decoration wire. Endemic area in the mountainous forests of the island of New Guinea.
Wilson's Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus respublica)
Wilson's Bird of Paradise rather small-sized up to 21 cm. Burun male is black with red and yellow robes in the neck, mouth light green, blue legs and two purple tail feathers are curved. Semetara the female brownish with a blue crown.
Is endemic to Indonesia, with the deployment area on the hill and lowland rain forest and Batanta Waigeo Islands of West Papua.
Princess Stephanie's Astrapia (Astrapia stephaniae)
Stephanie Astrapia measuring about 37 cm, this bird is black with iridescent blue-green head and purple, besides it has a long tail feathers black keungunan.
Female birds are dark brown to bluish-black head. Its natural habitat in the mountains of central and eastern Papua New Guinea.
Posts
Incredible bird this one, the minimum age is as old as I am, 50 years! He was allowed my father when I was fed up. He lived in our family home at home, in Central Java, to this day. My own father was long dead and kakaklah that continues to this day maintain. I myself leaving these birds since I was in high school, 34 years ago, in the city of Malang. Because I love animals, which is always yelling call: old older brother ... brother ... when I pass (maybe I should have called him brother), he often I stroked when I was a child. Just because I dared to pet her instinct alone, because his beak like a sudden bite. But it almost never does to me for this, but I stroked it while talking to someone else, perhaps she is jealous.
